[caption id="attachment_2521203" align="alignright" width="299"] Baltimore artist Karl Saar’s contribution to this year’s One Night, One Show, One Cause benefit for the Living with Cancer Resource Program at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, is a guitar embellished with a fish, perched on a stand of metallic “seaweed” over a cache of 76 metal guitar picks.[/caption] It’s another trifecta...

[caption id="attachment_2521196" align="aligncenter" width="550"] As a comic book collector, we all have dream issues, blue-chip comics, hot back-issues, (call them whatever you’d like) that we’ve been hunting down for years. But have you ever stopped to think, what made that issue you’ve been dreaming about adding to your collection hot?[/caption] If you're a comic book collector like me,...

[caption id="attachment_2521179" align="alignleft" width="231"] This two-sided R & G Corsets porcelain sign in a wrought iron frame with the original hanging bracket is just one of hundreds of lots of vintage adverting belonging to the 50-year lifetime collection of Bud and Sally Bassett that will be sold without reserve the weekend of Oct. 3-5 by Showtime Auction Services,...

[caption id="attachment_2521174" align="alignright" width="400"] This American rococo carved and laminated rosewood etagere, made circa 1860 by J. & J.W. Meeks, is just one a many pieces of 19th-century American furniture to be at the Ahlers & Ogletree’s Fall Estates Auction, slated for Oct. 4-5.[/caption] ATLANTA – Marvelous examples of mid-19th century American furniture by renowned makers such as...

[caption id="attachment_2521186" align="alignright" width="303"] Vincent van Gogh’s “Still Life, Vase with Daisies and Poppies,” painted just weeks before his death, teems with the intense energy, emotion and sensitivity of this creative genius at the height of his short but renowned career. When it comes up for auction in the Sotheby’s Evening Sale of Impressionist & Modern Art on...

[caption id="attachment_2521165" align="aligncenter" width="550"] This historically important Smith & Wesson cased gun was presented to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt on her 49th birthday by her long-time personal security guard and companion Earl Miller. It will come up for bid at the Outstanding Firearms Auction to be hosted by James D. Julia, Inc., on Oct. 7-9.[/caption] FAIRFIELD, Maine –...

[caption id="attachment_2521156" align="aligncenter" width="550"] This viewing window from the Manhattan Project’s Hanford Site in Southern Oregon, used during the production of plutonium for the atomic bomb known as Fat Man, is expected to sell for between $150,000 and $250,000 in the Bonhams History of Science sale on Oct. 22.[/caption] We often hear of someone or something ending up...

[caption id="attachment_2521149" align="aligncenter" width="550"] “Thrift Hunters,” starring Jason T. Smith (left) and Bryan Goodman, returns to television on Saturday nights as the second season will premiere on Oct. 11 on Spike TV. The boys will be hitting huge thrift stores, small second-hand shops and antique malls in large cities and small towns, and they want you to know...

[caption id="attachment_2521138" align="aligncenter" width="550"] Do you have an old dresser that needs a new lease on life but you’ve never picked up a paintbrush in your life? Novice DIYers can turn out great refinishing jobs with Cari Cuckey’s new RePurpose line of paints and stains.[/caption] When looking at a piece of old furniture—something that could be called antique,...